Mayor Michael Brown announced the city's contribution, which brings the reward to $14,000, Tuesday morning. Crime Stoppers is offering up to $4,000, $3,000 of which was an anonymous donation.

"Any killing in our city, we're concerned about and this one ... you can't help but be moved by the death of a 3-year-old under these circumstances," Brown said. "A 3-year-old doesn't choose where he lives or the circumstances he lives in or who he's in the room with."

Erikh, described as inquisitive by nature, was trying to see who was arguing in the other room when he was killed Sunday morning by a stray bullet during a home-invasion robbery at his mother's Broadmoor apartment.

Since then, numerous detectives with the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office and the Riviera Beach Police Department have vigorously worked the case, but say they need the public's help.

Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Sean Forman at 561-688-4018 or Crime Stoppers at 800-458-8477.

Still, the family has faith that the masked man who barged into Tilesha Taylor's apartment demanding money and shot little Erikh will be caught.

"The community is outraged about it," Tilesha's uncle, the Rev. Lloyd Taylor, said. "Without a shadow of doubt, we believe that the person who committed this will be brought to justice."

About 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Tilesha Taylor, 27, cracked open the door while asking who was knocking but didn't get an answer, friends said.

The man, wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun, burst in and yelled for Taylor's friend, Shawn Anderson, officials said.

Anderson, 36, tussled with the intruder in the master bedroom and the gun fired. After the gunshot, the man searched the floor for about five minutes until he found Anderson's sweat pants, which contained a wad of cash.

Shortly after the gunman ran out, Taylor noticed Erikh, who turned 3 on Dec. 12, lying dead in the doorway of his bedroom across the hall, sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller said.

Lloyd Taylor and his family are pleading with the child's killer to come forward. So much so that Taylor has offered to go to the jail with the suspect to counsel him.

When asked how he could put aside his grief and rage to do so, Taylor said: "First of all, it's my job as a man of God. The person that did this is not a well individual. ... I [have] to set Lloyd to the side and take care of the responsibility ordained by God."

The funeral for the boy who knew his ABCs and could count up to 30 is 11 a.m. Friday at Bibleway Missionary Baptist Church, 506 15th St., West Palm Beach.

Akilah Johnson can be reached at akjohnson@sun-sentinel.com or 561-243-6645.